tokico HELP!!!!!!!PICS

[tauruswithheart]

are the seals in tokicos repairable? i have a used set out of my friends car the flipped and 1 rear is in great shape...one front had a burr very close to the housing and tore the seal and other front is ever so slightly bent but still pushies in and out with a very slight hesitation on the rebound....the other rear is in fine shape with no torn seal except about 3/4 the way downthe rod it is bent like 30 degrees. haha....any suggestion on how to save these poor tokicos????????they have around 5000 miles on them....

 

[SHO Continental]

toss them in the trash.

Where abouts do you live again?

 

[tauruswithheart]

ct......toss them?????????????????? NO WAY....2 are fine.....do you think tokico will repair them????

 

[tauruswithheart]

ok one front and 1 rear are in perfect working order. there was a little dust in one of the fronts and i cleaned it now there is no hesitation. clean as a whistle and its not bend either i though it was but its not.....the bent one technically is still under warranty because the scratch is not scratched at all....i can say i hit a *** hole hard and it bent.....haha

 

[PAracer]

If Tokico can fix them, and if their pricing is anything similar to Koni as far as rebuilds go, then there will be no economic grounds for having them fixed. A set of new Koni struts might be cheaper.

nobody will be able to fix a scratched rod without labor (weld, grind, polish, pray). It will leak forever. Tokico most likely will tell you that they cannot fix the bent one (really isn't feasable, and they would be stupid to accept a warranty claim).

All things considered, I think you have a pair of junk struts. Sorry. Unfortunately, you also now have two used struts. You would either want to sell your good ones, or look to buy the missing pair. Unequal pamping could cause a funny ride quality, although it would mitigate itself after a short while.

BTW, how fast do the good ones reboud? Compress one all the way, then see how long it takes for it to return to fully extended. The quicker the better. Don't hurt yourself compressing it.

:type:

 

[tauruswithheart]

im very able to compress these i bench 385....haha......they rebound just like they came out of the box honestly.......around 3 seconds.....there is no possible way service the inserts????? maybe tokico stopped making the housing and insert combo for sho's but they still use like a universal type insert for different HP applications.

 

[SHO Continental]

im very able to compress these i bench 385....haha......they rebound just like they came out of the box honestly.......around 3 seconds.....there is no possible way service the inserts????? maybe tokico stopped making the housing and insert combo for sho's but they still use like a universal type insert for different HP applications.

They are..

Front Tokico Cartridge: P/N HZ3130
Rear Tokico Cartridge: P/N HZ3131

 

[tauruswithheart]

i called tokcio there are none left and will never be any left......

 

[zak]

If you've got one good front I might be willing to buy it from you, am in CT also - zak

 

[tauruswithheart]

weve talked on the phone zak.....haha.....i actually found another front and rear and will be using them in my 90